The Whippet #136: Please don't explain to me what a metasurface is
Today's items include: "The world’s deadliest shark is not the one you think it is, or your next two guesses" and "all muppets are left-handed"
The Whippet #135: “That’s not very sentinel chicken of you”
“Oh! Are you hungry?” Dorothy asked. “Dreadfully hungry,” answered the Tiger. “Then why don’t you eat something?” “It’s no use,” said the Tiger sadly. “I’ve tried that, but I always get hungry again.”
The Whippet #134: Those that tremble as if they were mad
We group things into arbitrary and overlapping categories: mammal, omnivore, tall. Therefore the number of categories in the world is larger than the number of things in the world.
The Whippet #133: Someone stubborn
"It’s obviously a male ghost and he’s miserable. You can imagine a tall, thin, bearded ghost hanging about the house did get on people’s nerves."
Whippet Cetera: Courage's dark counterpart
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Lying is the most important of the vices, because without lying you can’t practise any other vice consistently.
The Whippet #132: My books are getting ruined and birds wake me before dawn
The US postal service used to stab everyone’s mail, smoke not dirt, Song Dynasty cat poems, street pasta, burnout.
The Whippet #131: How to pick up and hold dozens of animals
Memory, poison bird, war, philosophy, fermented milk, and of course, how to pick up and hold dozens of animals.
The Whippet #130: I wish to express my joy of the cat
A 9th century Japanese Emperor describes the first recorded cat to arrive in Japan. "In rebellion, it narrows its eyes and extends its needles. I am convinced it is superior to all other cats.”
The Whippet #129: Lethal Allele
A newsletter for the terminally curious: science, history and weirdness with 0% contemporary politics, because oh my god sometimes you need a break.
The Whippet #128: Arbitrarily dangerous cargo
A newsletter for the terminally curious: science, history and weirdness with 0% contemporary politics, because oh my god sometimes you need a break.